THE BEST: Can Opener

[Shel_B]

I saw this thread about can openers and rembered this review of openers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65pLsbLToVs

 

[rotuts]

I finally got around to trying the Kitchen Mamma on smaller cans

 

now that I have a very healthy ( lower salt ) supply  of them :

 

 

works quite well .

 

this is very worthwhile as getting the ' firmer ' contents out of this type of can , w the rim that's left if using the pop tab ,

 

is a PITA 

 

contents that readily pour out of a can , are fine w the pop tab .

 

K.M. just tripled in value for me !

[chromedome]

The upstairs (ie, rest-of-house) can opener broke a couple of months ago, so I took my OXO up there to be the main can opener in the house. 

A few weeks back I bought a very ordinary Swing-Away, which I've had before and considered solidly workmanlike. I got mine at Canadian Tire, though I believe it's the same model Walmart sells. While I was away, my GF used it to open the cans of soft food for our kittens. Much to my surprise, it works both as a conventional and as a side-cut opener. I never would have thought to try it that way - I loathe side-cutters - but I know many of you like them, so I'm throwing this out there as a potentially useful data point for someone. 

[AlaMoi]

a two-fer . . . veddy interestink . . .

I remember the SwingAway types from long ago - they had to be screw-mounted to something vertical & sturdy.

my kitchen simply has no such reasonable 'vertical' surface to do that . . .

 

are new types 'free standing' / handheld?

[chromedome]

1 hour ago, AlaMoi said:

a two-fer . . . veddy interestink . . .

I remember the SwingAway types from long ago - they had to be screw-mounted to something vertical & sturdy.

my kitchen simply has no such reasonable 'vertical' surface to do that . . .

 

are new types 'free standing' / handheld?

They still make those big commercial units that attach to a workbench, for sure. Not so certain about the wall-mount domestic kind, like my grandmother had. This one is just a simple hand-held unit, like any other except (in my experience) better made than most.